NLP with LLMs: Language Translation, Summarization, & Semantic Similarity

Skillsoft issued completion badges are earned based on viewing the percentage required or receiving a passing score when assessment is required. Language translation, text summarization, and semantic textual similarity are advanced problems within the field of Natural Language Processing (NLP) that are increasingly solvable due to advances in the use of large language models (LLMs) and pre-trained models. In this course, you will learn to translate text between languages with state-of-the-art pre-trained models such as T5, M2M 100, and Opus. You will also gain insights into evaluating translation accuracy with BLEU scores and explore multilingual translation techniques. Next, you will explore the process of summarizing text, utilizing the powerful BART and T5 models for abstractive summarization. You will see how these models extract and generate key information from large texts and learn to evaluate the quality of summaries using ROUGE scores. Finally, you will master the computation of semantic textual similarity using sentence transformers and apply clustering techniques to group texts based on their semantic content. You will also learn to compute embeddings and measure similarity directly.